Johann Heinrich Wuest. Johann Heinrich Wüest was a Swiss landscape painter of pre-romanticism.
He completed his training in his hometown of Zurich, where he mainly worked. His early works were strongly inspired by Dutch-Flemish painting from the golden age.
During his stay in the Netherlands he was warmly welcomed by Jacob Maurer, who is also Swiss; he brought him together with the art dealer Cornelis Ploos, as well as with Creutz von Gottlieben, who taught him in perspective. After Maurer's death, Wüest adopted his son.
He later developed an independent style of painting, which was reflected in transfigured mood landscapes. Together with Caspar Wolf, Johann Heinrich Füssli, Anton Graff and Adrian Zingg, Wüest can be counted among the most important Swiss romanticists.
His most famous work is The Rhone Glacier from 1795. Like many pre-romantic and romantic artists, Wüest used a real landscape model, here the Rhone Glacier, and composed a mood landscape from it. The dominance of the sky and the cloud formations remind the painting of Jacob van Ruisdael's works. The combination of a wild alpine landscape and primarily tiny back figures as a staffage anticipates essential design elements of romantic painting.
He completed his training in his hometown of Zurich, where he mainly worked. His early works were strongly inspired by Dutch-Flemish painting from the golden age.
During his stay in the Netherlands he was warmly welcomed by Jacob Maurer, who is also Swiss; he brought him together with the art dealer Cornelis Ploos, as well as with Creutz von Gottlieben, who taught him in perspective. After Maurer's death, Wüest adopted his son.
He later developed an independent style of painting, which was reflected in transfigured mood landscapes. Together with Caspar Wolf, Johann Heinrich Füssli, Anton Graff and Adrian Zingg, Wüest can be counted among the most important Swiss romanticists.
His most famous work is The Rhone Glacier from 1795. Like many pre-romantic and romantic artists, Wüest used a real landscape model, here the Rhone Glacier, and composed a mood landscape from it. The dominance of the sky and the cloud formations remind the painting of Jacob van Ruisdael's works. The combination of a wild alpine landscape and primarily tiny back figures as a staffage anticipates essential design elements of romantic painting.
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